California Department of Transportation

Lawsuit aims to protect migrating swallows from deadly netting draped over bridges used as nesting sites

2013-05-20 17:13:00

� A coalition of environmental groups has filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing transportation agencies of violating migratory bird laws by installing protective netting across two bridges in the Petaluma, Calif., area that has injured and killed...

Ice Age bison remains found in northern San Diego County

2013-05-14 12:45:00

SAN DIEGO -- Start digging into Southern California and you never know what you'll find. The fossilized remains of an Ice Age bison were found by a Caltrans construction crew near Pala Mesa in northern San Diego County. The crew was working on a...

Delays, costs build up for 405 Freeway project in L.A.

2013-05-08 17:44:00

Linda Rose was commuting home from UCLA through the Sepulveda Pass in December 2011 when she noticed that several panels of a tall retaining wall just west of the 405 Freeway had crumpled. "It was like it was there the day before, and it wasn't there...

Bay Bridge retrofit plan addresses failed bolts

2013-05-08 21:26:00

OAKLAND — State and regional transportation officials announced plans Wednesday for a retrofit to the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge that will cost up to $10 million and effectively do the job of nearly 100 massive bolts...

Officials plan $10-million fix for broken bolts on new Bay Bridge

2013-05-08 16:16:00

OAKLAND — State and regional transportation officials Wednesday announced plans for a retrofit to the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge that will cost up to $10 million and effectively do the job of three dozen massive bolts...

Letters: The 405 blues

2013-04-27 00:00:00

Re "405 stuck in slow lane," April 25 The Times was kind enough to print a letter I wrote nearly six years ago, on June 23, 2007, on the 405 Freeway widening project. I will take the opportunity to say "I told you so." To recap, I wrote: "Everybody...

405 project stuck in the slow lane

2013-04-24 17:56:00

Elon Musk quips that it's easier getting rockets into orbit than navigating his commute between home in Bel-Air and his Space Exploration Technologies factory in Hawthorne. "The 405 … varies from bad to horrendous," said Musk, who also co-founded...

Solo drivers could use carpool lanes on off-hours under proposal

2013-04-10 16:45:00

A bill by Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Sliver Lake) that would allow solo drivers to use carpool lanes during non-peak hours on the 134 Freeway in Glendale and Burbank has been amended to possibly include other local freeways. Gatto’s bill, AB 405,...

Living near traffic linked to increased cancer risk in children

2013-04-09 15:20:00

Researchers have already uncovered worrying signs that exposure to traffic – and the vehicle emissions that come with it – can increase a child’s risk of developing asthma and autism. Now comes evidence that it may make children more...

Toll lanes bring more delays for drivers who don't pay

2013-04-10 10:28:00

Last year, carpool lanes on a portion of the 110 Freeway were converted to toll lanes. Preliminary data show average travel speeds have increased in the lanes formerly reserved for carpoolers, but traffic has slowed on the rest of the freeway. So for...

Traffic zips in toll lanes, but slows in free lanes

2013-04-09 20:22:00

When Los Angeles County's inaugural toll lanes opened on the 110 Freeway late last year, Scott Sternad decided he could do without. "Nearly $1,000 a year?" said the 24-year-old engineering student, who commutes from Hermosa Beach to USC three times a...

California 38 may shut down at least a week after tanker spill

2013-04-26 17:59:00

California 38 near Angelus Oaks will shut down for at least a week and perhaps several weeks after a tanker truck flipped over Friday, spilling 4,000 gallons of fuel onto the roadway and into a nearby creek that feeds into the Santa Ana River, authorities...

Elephant Seals sunning on the beach near San Simeon. Bicyclists on Highway 1 in this Central Coast area have found the roadway to be too rough to ride after a Caltrans repaving project last fall.

2013-03-15 16:06:25

A pillar and flag proposed as part of a public monument in the Central California town of Orcutt was rejected by Caltrans, which forbids displaying the flag on public streets.

2013-02-25 00:00:00

A Caltrans plow pushes snow on Interstate 5 in Lebec.

2013-02-20 08:33:01